That’s the average life span of the 125—and counting—dead Apple Time Capsules at The Apple Time Capsule Memorial Register. And all the users who registered those dead pieces of plastic and metal are saying that’s not enough. I agree that the figure seems too low. But then again, like Matt Buchanan just said when he heard about it: “They’re all using shitty Hitachi hard drives that aren’t actually server grade, so colour me less than surprised.”
I say they all have a point. [Time Capsule Memorial via TUAW]
samual
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 10:19 AMwell thats 17 months and 15 days longer than my 1 tb time capsule lasted..
Bennish
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:27 AMWhat’s a time capsule?
matt
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:33 AMI thought they did use server drives?
anyway, I assume all these people leave them on 24/7, in which case thats about how long they will last. just replace the drive and move on (I assume you can replace the drive?) apparently WD desktop drives are coming with 5 year warranties now, that doesn’t mean they will last 5 years, especially if its 24/7, but atleast you get it replaced for free.
remember these are BACKUP devices, as in you should have a copy of the data somewhere else or it doesn’t matter how long the thing lasts, eventually you will lose everything!
If someone puts all their data on one of these and nowhere else, then leaves it on 24/7 and it doesn’t have a server drive, and you can’t replace the drive, and it only comes with a 1 year warranty, then they deserve all the pain they get, cause there are a million other options out there.
Lee H
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 3:12 PMwouldn’t the memorial register only be for the ones that have ‘died’. not really a true picture of the life span (mttf) if it doesn’t take into account the ones that are still ‘living’.
data
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 10:36 PMhaven’t anyone heard of DROBO PRO?
No One
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 3:06 AMMatt, Time Capsules are also Wireless APs, so it wouldn’t make much sense to ever leave them OFF. And I don’t think the hard drive is replaceable (unconfirmed).